title: Peri-dialytic hypertension and hypotension: another U-shaped BP-outcome association.
abstract: Park et al. performed a retrospective analysis of a large hemodialysis cohort to describe the relationship between pre- to postdialysis changes in BP and mortality. Their study demonstrated adverse outcomes associated both with large decreases and with any increase in blood pressure pre- to postdialysis. Although limitations exist in this analysis, which lacked intradialytic blood pressure measurements, the results support the ongoing concern about the potential adverse hemodynamic stress associated with conventional three-times-weekly hemodialysis.
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA [2] Quintiles Global Clinical Research Institute, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Jula K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Inrig
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis